Medieval category: 3965 books
The Chapel of Bones (Knights Templar Mysteries 18)
An engrossing and intriguing medieval mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
As Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock uncover the mysteries surrounding the church, they risk making more enemies than friends...
The Chapel of Bones is the eighteenth mystery in Michael Jecks' riveting Knights Templar medieval series, featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and Simon Puttock. Perfect...
The Mad Monk Of Gidleigh (Knights Templar Mysteries 14)
A thrilling medieval mystery set in the West Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
After a young woman tragically dies, it is up to Sir Baldwin and Simon Puttock to unravel the mystery surrounding her suspicious death...
Michael Jecks brings medieval England to life in the fourteenth mystery of his Knights Templar series, featuring the ever-popular Sir Baldwin de Furnshill...
Walking to Canterbury
A Modern Journey Through Chaucer's Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where...
Conduct Becoming
Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Conduct Becoming examines a new genre of late medieval writing that focuses on a wife's virtuous conduct and ability of such conduct to alter marital and social relations in the world. Considering a range of texts written for women—the journées chrétiennes or daily guides for Christian living,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This book is a collection of studies on topics related to subjectivity and selfhood in medieval and early modern philosophy. The individual contributions approach the theme from a number of angles varying from cognitive and moral psychology to metaphysics and epistemology. Instead of a complete overview...
Animal Languages in the Middle Ages
Representations of Interspecies Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction...
The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature
From Fen to Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Comprehensive anthology contains exquisite cross-section of Western medieval literature, from Boethius and Augustine to Dante, Abelard, Marco Polo, and Villon, masterfully translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Eliot Norton, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Lord Tennyson, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle,...
by R. Ladd
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
James Grant (1822–1887) was a Scottish author and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a distant relation of Sir Walter
Scott. He was a prolific author, writing some 90 books, including many yellow-backs. Titles included Adventures of an Aide-decamp, One of 'The Six Hundred', The Scottish...
The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature
The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that...
Parrots and Nightingales
Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known...
Remembering Boethius
Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a body of late-medieval vernacular literature that draws on the Consolation of Philosophy to represent and reimagine contemporary experiences of...
by Joanne Mattern
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Medieval England was a time of great change and uncertainty. Readers will be enthralled as they learn about various aspects of the Middle Ages in England including the feudal system, Hundred Years War, War of the Roses, and the bubonic plague. The detailed images and captivating facts and sidebars...